Resources on Domestic Workers in Arab States

  1. ILO and SDC launch new programme to protect migrant workers in vulnerable situations in the Arab States, with a focus on workers from Africa

    30 March 2020

    The FAIRWAY Programme, funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and implemented by ILO, responds to the need to ensure decent work for migrant workers, including in sectors where they are at high risk of exploitation, such as in domestic work, construction and hospitality, and will support interregional collaboration between countries in Africa and the Middle East.

  2. Project Brief: The FAIRWAY programme

    30 March 2020

    The FAIRWAY programme addresses underlying causes of decent work deficits at their source through national-level interventions in selected countries of origin in East, West and North Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, and Morocco). In the Arab States, the programme provides continuity to interventions in countries of destination across the region by building on the work of the Fairway Middle East project (2016-2019), which targeted low-skilled migrant workers from all regions.

  3. FAIRWAY Publications

    23 March 2020

  4. Protection, information and return and reintegration services

    23 March 2020

  5. Decent work and recruitment

    23 March 2020

  6. Changing the discourse on migration

    23 March 2020

  7. Interregional dialogue

    23 March 2020

  8. Workers' empowerment

    23 March 2020

  9. Private sector engagment

    23 March 2020

  10. National consultation on Kafala reform in Lebanon

    09 March 2020

    The ILO Regional Office for Arab States has been engaged with national constituents in Lebanon to introduce structural and legal reforms to address the risks of forced labour and other forms of labour exploitation facing migrant workers.